ABSTRACT
In anthropology, ethnicity has been a major research focus since the 1960s and has remained so to the present day. A wide variety of cases, groups, and circumstances have come under examination, such as ethnic conflicts, nonviolent ethnic movements, multiethnic neighbourhoods and schools, and indigenous populations, as well as immigrants and refugees to Europe and North America. Despite the obvious and important differences between these situations, an ethnic framework is considered a useful instrument for understanding (parts of) what is going on. This raises the question of the conceptualization of ethnicity. Although less has been written about ethnicity than about identity, clarification is necessary.
